-PAGE SIX MT. VERNON SIGNAL Tbnrsday, December 10, 1942 .•

By ARTHUR STRINGER TUB STOItY .SO FAR: In order to

u v p "Norland' Airways "fWrttt'"Wnt-raptcy Also Blade agrees fp By a so? called selmtlst named Frayne and his assistant, Karnell. to the Anawotto river In search of the trumpeter swan. With the proceeds Slade's partner, Cwcer, has bought a plane,«a Lockheed, whleh ts stolen while Slade Is away. Suspecting that the disappearance of the plane has ' .Something to do with Frayne. Slade re-turns to where he left the swa^hunter, only to Bad him apparently dBTng nothing but hunt swans. There Is no trace of the plane. That leaves Slade with only one clue;-the "dfvll bird/* or "ghost" plane which the esklmo. Umanak, Brst heard and which appears to come from Bcfto. Ilarb* * On his way back to re-port to Cruder Slade stops to see his

and learns that the gas''cache he keeps •ear jheir cabin has been robbed. Now lis and Cruger are talking *nd Slade Is outlining bis plans. ' -"Jfdw continue with the ctocw.

CHAPTEA XI

Slade's first impulse wasyto pro-claim that he'd be looking; for a ghost plane.

"All right'," Cruger said out of a • » prolonged silencc. "You. win. Give

that Anawotto country the once-over. We're going, bust anyway, the way

• th ings a r a . " - . . . Slade's lips thinned with resolu-

tlop. "I'm going to find that Lockheed,"

he affirmed. Cruger remained unimpressed. . "When do you start?" he inquired. Slade disregarded the yiote of

mockery. ' -:v • "*" ffiisT>urg," was his slightly abstract-v ed reply. "And then a look around • ldcMurray.." r j .

"For What?" -"To find a friend of mine," was

Slade's unexpected reply, "who got hurt in a fight—Slim Tumstead."

"I didn't think you played around with camp bums," said Cruger. "What's your fighting friend got to dQ with this trip into the Anawotto?"

"I"don't know yet," was Slade's quiet-voiced reply. "But it's going to help a little to know just where he's hanging out." >

The cabin on the Kasakanb, nes-tling between its shouldering hills, stood a place of peace as the sun mounted high • above the spruce ridges and the spoonbills and wavr eys fed in the water shallows.

wall bunk and reached for his /.scarred-old larrigons. from one / of them, he saw, a lace was most,

unmistakably missing. He squinted •bout the floor boards. Then - he groped and grunted about under, the bunk end. Then his' narrowing ga2e centered on'his camp-mate, whose •mile was bland as he busied him-self slicing sowbelly for breakfast.

"You took my shoelace, you Ju-das-souled old skillet-swabber," jwas Zeke's indignant accusation.

"What'd I want with y<jur shoe-lace?" demanded Minty,' edging •way until he stood at the far side of the cookstove.

"You wanted it enough Jo swipe it from this-here larrigan,""charged Zeke. He dropped down on all fours to inspect his. companion's shoe-packs. "And she's there, wrapped around your scrofulous old shin-bone."

"She ain't-," piped Minty. "You gimme back that lace o'

mine, or. d'you know what I'll do? I'll call it quits for keeps. I don't •im to do minin' work with a human polecat who *«.obs a camp-mate in his sleep."

"And I'm sure fed up with tryin' to live peaceful under the same roof with a rattlesnake in larrigans."

But by the time they had eaten, the hurricane had blown ftself out. They were forlornly dependent on each other, in their isolation, and they knew it. ,

"Meat's gittin'-Zlower'n" I like to see it," ventured Minty as he hung up the flour sack that served as a towel. "S'posin' you finish up the atrippin' on that new dike while I

. go scoutin' for a day or two." ' "What'll you scout for?" demand-

ed Zeke, secretly disturbed by the thought of being alone.

"Spotted. a buck out 'by that old caribou crossin' yesterday," said Minty. "Reckon I'll go after him."

He had, he knew, a second reason-for that, excursion out over the northern ridges. He had a hanker-ing to nose tfboutr« bit and And out what might be bringing an outsid-er's plane into that district of theirs.

Minty was too good a woodsman not to spot his landmarks and blaze an occasional spruce or jackpine as lie pujhed deeper and deeper into the broken country north of the Kas-•kana. He went on; houi; after* si-lent hoiir, encouraged by a showing-

. ,Qf^ieer tracks and spoor. Bui lie got no glimpse of his buck.

What most occupied his.Mind, as the sun towered and weariness over-took him, was the problem pf'flnd.

. ing a comfortable place to make camp'. And he had the needed wood and" water, he discovered, "when he

-^came to a loon-haunted lake lightly ' 'fringed .with spruce. He stoically

made his fire, cooked )iis supper, and ate his , bannock and .bacpn, washed down with strong tea. Then, lighting his pipe, h$ sat watching the tyi|d (owl o n the .lake water.

To the.silent watcher, a'moment later, cfime a sound that was neither • throb nor a drone, a far-away

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THE VALUE OF THE CHURCH TO THE SOCIAL ORDER

GOLDEN TEXT—'*• m the ,alt of the earth . . . Ye are the light of the world.— Matthew »:U. 14.

Dr. Barton.

The hungry look was still In her eyes. But the world had come back to sound that grew stronger as he lis-tened. Peering north, where a be-lated sun still hung red above the horizon, he caught sight of a plane. It war*-flying low; growing bigger as he watched. It showed dark, at first, against the evening light,- But as it came closer and veered a point .or two into the wind it became a framework of ghostly white, heeling down in the lake and slowly losing headway on the ruffled water.

Minty, " blinking at the . pallid j*iw)r*' JealiMd the. . * & » , J b a t t t bigger than Lindy Slade's SnolPBttU Baby and different in .outline. It floated higher, on the water, and gave .theriiqpression-.ot'being.-bob-tailed, as it drifted slowly, in to-ward the shoreline where the spftoe'e groves met the water. , Then Minty rubbed his eyes and blinked harder than ever. For, be-fore he quite knew, how or when, the ' plane had disappeared from sight.

Minty, who didn't believe in mira-cles, decided'to look into what hod all the aspects of a miraculous dis-appearance. .He smothered his fire Bnd-tvZs- his worn - old • four-pointer. Then he took up his rifle and quietly... rounded the southerly arm of the lake, making it a point to keep as well - under cover as possible^

But no of life, as he stopped from time to time,' stood revealed to him. He seemed-so. alone in a world of twiUt emptiness -that he fell to wondering,' as he pressed on, if his. old eyes had been playing tribks oft-Him.,

Then he stopped short, arrested by the sound of voices*

"Why'd you have a fire on the oth-er side of . the lake?" one of these voices inquired. • •

"I had "no fire," a. more guttural voice respbnded? ' , • •

"But I safr it as I tafae down," maintained-the other. "And if you advertise this^, layout you'll last, about as long here as a snowball in hell." K, . ' . i

"I had no .firoi"' was the stubborn-ly repeated protect." y " '

Minty's first impulse, was to creep a Dttle closer. But on second thought he dropped behilid. the ridge and circled back through the*scat-tered spruce boles-. Henoticed, as he traversed the valley, that te4 to the neighboring ridge, how the tim-ber had been cut" away to .leave a rough trail that led lakeward'. He also noticed, as he skirted this sec-ond ridge, that its black-rocked sur-face was scored and seamed'witfi shallow trenches, as though a pros-pector had been stripping and searching for color .there. • -

Minty stood thoughtful a moment and then made his way higher up the sloping hogback that terminated in an abrupt cliff.end at the water's edge. He crouched low as he went, for the pover thinned. out as he 'as-cended. But he could no -longer hear voices. That troubled him a .little as he moved forward to the crest of the divide. From there' he could see how the lake bluff merged into a darker tangle of timber. And that timber, he saw, was a man-made canopy of spruce boles. It was an arbor-cave into which the wings of a plane could slip and lie concealed.; And under the casually woven cover that arched the. nar-row harbor.between the rock-shoul-ders he could make out-the pallid outlines of his vanished airplane.

A tingle eddied through him as he discerned a roughly made landing platform close under the plane wings, a landing platform on which he.saw a double row of ore bags. They stood there filled and tied, as though -waiting for transport.'

Minty's anxiety for a better view of those ore bags, prompted him to move to the upper peak of the ridge. He.hesitated about advancing down the open slope. And as he hesitated A -sudden. hlwirof sound broke the quietness.

He knew it was a gunshot, even before he felt the force of the bul-let. The impact of that bullet, tear-ing through the blanket folds within three inches of his ear, twisted his startled bodj halfway around and sent him tumbling along the rock slope. He lost possession of his rifle as he fell. He kept on rolling and bounding down the long slope until hia body collided with the un-derbrush that fringed the valley bot-tom. From the ridge top he heard

a triumphant voice call out: "I got hfmf" But his one impulse, at the moment,. was to put distance be-tween him and that unknown sniper. He crawled-Into the "underbrush, grateful for the thinning light that was paling to semi-darkness. He wormed "forward, seeking always any deeper cover, that offered. He went on until he came to a stony cross gully quartering off to the left. Once in this he scrambled to his feet and ran forward, stooping low as he, went. When he -potted a VPRMte^rove htol Trtgh^-he.Joye into it. emerging on S 'sTopiT -M glacial hardheads along which he-dodged from shadow to-shadow.

He neither stopped nor . rested un-tH he-'tftfd motxfrttfd a agioiiu-ViUp,̂ -and lost himSelf in a second scat-tering of stunted timber. There, panting and wheezing,.'he sank down behind a ridge of granite.

But there was still peril, he felt, in that neighborhood. He pushed on through a sludgy bed of tul.es, crossed another timbered ridge, and came to more open country. There he studied the stars, made sure of his course, and began fighting his circuitous way back toward the camp on the Kosakana. When tired out he slept. When the sun wakened him, he ate and went on. The sec-ond night he slept for. an hour or two, and then pushed doggedly on.

The sub-arctic light of morning was. returning to the land when Min-ty reached' the shack. . Zeke, he found, was still asleep in his wall bunk. He awakened him with a shout tinged with bitterness.,

"Your.days.o'. peace is over, you pillow-Iovin" old profligate. There's goin' to be war in" these regions."

. Lynn was restless and worried. For the third time .in half an hour, she crossed to the door and scanned the pearl - misted skyline that stretched away to the south. She

.told herself that she was merely watching for. a familiar blue plane with weathered wings, a plane with the • Flying Padre at the controls. But her thoughts, - as she did so, were on ^mother plane, an equally wea'.here3 plane known as the Snow-Ball .Baby.

Hgr week of watching over old -Umanak"'had persuaded her that she was no} -equipped for solitude.

She turned back to her patient when she saw Umanak lift his white-swathed head in an attitude of listening.

"Devil-bird come," he muttered. A moment later Lynn herself

heard- the familiar bee-hum of a distant motor.

"That's the Padre," she said as she ran to the door. A moment lat-er she was hurrying down the slope to the waterfront.

But the . long-legged figure that emerged from the cabin was not that of the Flying Padre. She brushed back her wind-blown hair to see £Ian striding toward her.

He-must have caught the surge of Joy that swept up to her eyes, for he stopped abruptly and . stood studying her upturned face. He did hot speaks B'ur his own eyes dark-ened as he detected the look of hun-ger in the questioning hazel ey'es resting on his face. He groped for

.her hand, with his heart pounding. Then he took her in his arms.

She roused herself and forced her quickly breathing body freff of the encircling arms. The hupgry. look was still in her eyes. But time and the world had come back to her. "What is it?" he asked, conscious

of the firmness with which she was. holH'ng-him away from her.

"I've a patient there," she re-minded him, pointing to the knoll* top surgery.

Slade strode after her as she moved up the slojje. He remem-bered about old Umanak.

"How is the old boy?" "That's what I'm waiting to find

out," Lyrnv WKpi»ined. "Everything looks all right, but, of, course, I can't tell. Father'll be'here; any time now, to take off the bandages."

"Will he be able to see?" Slade asked. "I mean Umanak."

"If hoping helps any," answered Lynn, "that old hunter will be fol-lowing a dog team agafh before long."

Slade arrested Jier in the door-way.

"I may be out of a Job earlier than I expected," he said.

(TO BE CONTINUED)

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EATING RIGHT FOODS

In these days of stress and strain when everybody must be at their best mentally and physically, health departments everywhere are trying

to . guide their com-murafeelwas to prop-er food and eating hatoits..

While It may be trie that too much hai been said about the value of vita-mins and minerals in the diet, neverthe-less these two food

K- elements have led many to give more at tent ion to the i r food needs. Because

there '"« r o Vtck of the necessary foods, most individuals pick or choose the foods they - like;, it does not occur to them that they could possibljSbe-suffering from a lack of the right kind of food to give them strength and energy;- -

In his-book "The National Nutri-tion," Dr. Morris -Fishbehi, editor of the Jour—' «* the American Med-ical Association, points out that teachers and parents should be watchful ct-childrrn as mnny of the signs of poor nutrition can be easily overlooked.

Signs that suggest poor nutrition are (a) lack of appetite, (b) failure to eat a good breakfast, (c) failure to gain steadily in weight, (d) dis-like of play, (3) chronic diarrhoea, (f) inability to sit still, (g) poor sleeping habits, (h) backwardness a t sehgpi, f#-head Colds,̂ "W

"posture, (k) sores at corners of mouth.

These same signs and symptoms : g r t f t e r i f t f t i i l g h t m « world of unb, careful Attention.""" ' ^ W s - w h a t .tMkmg,*t

The. "food guide" issued by the .United Statps Office of Defense Health and Welfare Servic?s. pub-lished in poster form "can be' ap-plied simply and practically "W ev-ery home."

"Milk and milk products—at least a pint for everyone—more for chil-dren—or cheese, or dried or evap-orated milk."

"Oranges, tomatoes, grapefruit— or raw cabbage, or salad greens—at least one of Uiese."

"Green or yellow vegetables—one big helping, other vegetables and fruits in season."'

"Bread and cereal—whole grain or enriched white bread and flour." . "Meat, poultry or fish—dried' beans, peas or nufs occasionally.™

"Eggs—at least 3 or 4 a week, cooked any way you choose or in 'made' dishes."

"Butter and other spreads—vita-min-rich fats, peanut butter, and similar spreads."

Sanitarium Visits Free From Danger -3

When a member of the family or one of your friends is found to have tuberculosis and is sent to a sani-tarium, you may wonder if it is safe for you or others to visit him. You know that tuberculosis is spread from one person to another by the organism (tubercle bacillis) float-ing in the ajr. You naturally won-der that with so many of these in the air of a room or' ward of- a sani-tarium, it -would, be safe for you and others to .venture there unless you wore a mask or other device to prevent you from breathing in these organisms.

However, if you think further, you realize that the physicians, nurses, and orderlies all enter the rooms and wards and. examine, apply

| treatment, serve meals, and clean I the floors and dust the furniture, yet they do not contract tuberculosis in any greater numbers than other in-

' dividuals. In the Quarterly Bulletin of the.

' Seaview hospital, Staten Island, N. Y., Dr. Harry L. Katz states that in order to prove that physicians, nurses and orderlies can perform their duties safely, he and his as-

I sociates investigated the common ' ways "tuberculosis is passed on to others and the means of its preven-tion.

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SUNDAY I CHOOL Lesson

By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. DI Of*'The -Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (fUlebted by Western Newspaper UnlonJ

Lesson f o r D e c e m b e r 13.

Attractive Simplicity In Slip Embroidery

ATTRACTIVE simplicity is the theme of these four pillow slip

motifs, air of which come on one pattern, Z9405. Cross stitch water-lilies and a delightful rose bou-quet-ftiake two pairs; another pair is-to be-bonded with the interest-ing Jazy daisy, "motif, and .the fourth pair bears an engaging row

Social and political leaders have In the church the strongest "influence for good in all the world. One mar-vels that those who profess to seek the best for humanity, who try ev-ery kind of social experiment, who . -labor with every expedient of man. i . 9 ' - m ' ^ u r e baskets, fail to see and use in full mea'sure } * *

St the explanation is that some of these » pailcrn, u ts crnii rt? Wdnsfir leaders are themselves tyisaved will sevrrai sen ot each if j*u meg. who do not understand jpiritu- j "«•>- s<-1d *<""• o r d " ">:

al things, and i re not willing give ' God the glory. • Pad&rpr. in the case I of others it is because of Ignorance j or lack of contact with the church, j

Whatever the reason, "the situa- j tlon should be remedied. America | could solve her problem's.--both so- | clal and political, by • nation-wide revival of true Christianity, with the accompanying salvation of thou-sands of unconverted. If we can-not have that, let us not fail to have a revival in our own hearts, our own churches,- our neighbor-hoods or communities.

We find. in oyr lesson that the church is

I. A Powerful Influence for Moral Good (Matt. 5:13-16).

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. Salt in the mid$t.4t-*o,^uptioA light in • world or unbelievable

ingful figures with which to describe the Christian.

Believers are the "salt of the earth" because they draw their sa-vor from God Himself. The Chris-tian church, by God'a own state-ment, is His own powerful antiseptic which preserves the social order from falling into the moral decay which sometimes seems Imminent. _It should, therefore, be honored and

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- .Mott oI the pleasure in giving 1* knowing that your gift is .appter,

I.J..-. en your" Christmas list, there are gifts sure to please. Send Camel cigarette* either in the Camel Christmaa Carton or the Camel "Holiday House" package of four "flat fif-ties." Either way you give 200 mild, flavorful Camels—the serv-ice man's favorite. If he smokes a pipe, send him the big pound can-ister of Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco—the National Joy Smoke'.

encouraged by that aociety. which | And .if he's in the service, the: it serves.

Christians are the ."light of the world,'.' and it is the essential na-ture of light to shine. The darker its surroundings the more marked Its brightness, and the more needed its illumination. The good works a! Christians reflect the . goodness of God, and so they glorify His worthy name. Brother, is your light burn-ing brightly in this wicked world?

II. A Stabilizing Element in So-ciety (Mark 12:13-17).

The world is in social ferment, and our own country has its share of "isms" and social theories calU ing men to follow, asking their loy-alty, making them Utopian promises without foundation.

Alert and intelligent Americans are concerned about these clamor-ous voices, many of which are quite properly suspected of having -pur-poses ' far from beneficial to our American way of life, or to democ-racy itself. Yet they dare not op-pose them lest'there be'the cry of denial of freedom of speech, etc.

What can we do to meet them? Here is the answer: Preach Christ. Bring men to a saving knowledge of Him and to a godly way of living. For the Christian is directed , by Christ Himself to "render unto Cae--sar the things that are Caesar's"— and they do it too, because they have first rendered "to God the things that are God's." —.

III. A Loyal Example of Good Citizenship (I Pet. 2:13-17).

The highest measure of loyalty to country is the Christian standard, here stated. In Romans 13:1-10 we learn that all authority comes from God and that the power of rulers Is to be recognized as His gift. That means that true rulers will submit to Him in every detail of their gov-ernment, seeking to know and to do His will.

However, the Christian gives loyal obedience to the "powers that be" even though they may not recognize the source of their power. This is subject only to the limitation that they, may not depiand that we do those things that dishonor God'a

gifts arc even more appropriate, for cigarettes and tobacco, are the service man's favorite gifts. Both Camels and Prince Albert arc spe-cially Christmas wrapped. Your dealer is featuring them as gifl»._ sure to please.—Adv.

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Do or Die Let us do or let us die.—Robert

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SHAVEw-h SHELBY,

:Tubercle baciHi may enter .the body (a) by breathing iri the air of the room or ward, (b) by eating food ' name. Since their (ohly real power containing the bacilli, *Tc) through j to rule comes-from Him, they have the mucous membranes (lining of no authority to tell anyone to do that nose. and throat) and (d) through .cracks or cuts in the skin." . What did these investigators dis-cover? They found that the air breathed out by a tuberculous patient duripg ordinary breathing "Hoes not contain tubercle bacilli." During coughing arid sneezing, how-ever, droplets thrown out from the mouth and nose "frequently contain the organisms." . . .

QUESTION BOX

Q.—Kindly explain, tacchycardia. A.—Tacchycardla means rapid

heart beat. If very fast, 'comes sud-denly and goes suddenly,.It.ls called paroxysmal, tacchycardia,. believed to* be due to nervousness or emo-tional disturbance. Quinldine is usual treatment.

Q.—Is oleomargarine as nutritious as butter?

A.—Oleomargarine is as rich Is food value as butter, but doesn't con-tain vtUmiit A.

which is against His holy will. When that happens, the Higher Authority takes over, and our loyalty must be to Him, the King of kings. The Christian then will be the best citi-zen, ^ager to do what king or coun-try may ask, in order thus to bear a good testimony and to close the mouth of foolish critics of the church.

The history of our country and of other lands reveals the names of many illustrious Christian patriots,, and the roll of honor of those who loved and served their country well in the humble and difficult places, would bear its hundreds of thou-sands'of names which are found also on the roll of the church.

Christians, let us be earnest and Intelligent followers of Christ, whose liyes count for rrtoral uprightness. "For God and Country." is the excel-lent motto of the American Legion, but it should be more than that; it should be the purpose of every Christian citizen.

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